| Sounds in the Game | Rating  |
The music stations now play the oldies channel, the new groove channel, and other channels to give you more musical options as you're going about your daily business. It is great to be able to select music while playing The Sims 2: Nightlife or heading downtown to take in the nightlife.
The sound track is absolutely solid entertainment and all the lyrics are in Simlish (sims lingo), which helps to keep you immersed in the Sims 2 world.
| The Story Line | Rating |
The Sims 2: Nightlife gives you new things to do while living your virtual sims-life that all revolve around new social activities to take part in, including a variety of new activities to explore in the downtown area. You can go on a date with your best girl, play a little poker in the poker hall, try one of the upscale restaurants or stick to the middle of the road by giving the food at the diner a try. Owning your own car is an option in The Sims 2: Nightlife, you can choose from one of five available cars, and a dozen different paint jobs. After you're finished customizing your ride take your girl out for a drive, turn the radio on, and sit side by side; amazing functionality makes this option a lot of fun. The Sims 2: Nightlife even has vampires, and you can become a red-eyed, pale-skinned, blood-sucker yourself if you want to, but you'll have to be bitten by the master vampire who hangs around at night.
| Playability | Rating  |
The Sims 2: Nightlife adds nothing new to the old Sims game play you remember, but it is a satisfying and engaging experience, so nothing new can still be good.
The Sims 2: Nightlife has pretty good playability; you can spend hours and hours exploring the downtown area. Add to this the ability to customize your own community space with a unique look in tune with your own personality, a fun and engaging social system that works painlessly and has a very shallow learning curve, and enough variety in all aspects of game design to keep you coming back for more.
| The Last Word | Rating |
The Sims 2: Nightlife is as much fun as previous titles in the Sims 2 series, and even adds a bit of new content to add a little more variety to the experience. Probably not a must-have, party-hardy sims title, but certainly one that deserves to be recommended because it adds to the Sims 2 experience without detracting from it.